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One of the questions asked of a person who decides to convert to Judaism is where they live. If this person answers that they live at a distance greater than 2 km from the Synagogue, they will not accept the request to start the conversion process. You are required to move to live at that distance.

The explanation is that the person must sacrifice something to have a full spiritual life considering a sacrifice to have to sell his house and buy a new one. The distance between the house and the Synagogue can cause the person not to attend it, in short, they try to foresee everything.

When those of us who were not born in the Gospel look at our lives before Christ, we notice that there are an infinity of things that we did and no longer do, but the question is: Was it a sacrifice?

If we analyze what we were and what we are, what we had and what we have gained, the objectivity with which we lived and changed for living hope, we realize that there has been no such sacrifice, what we have done is resign.

Every time I tell a person that I don't watch television they are amazed, then I explain to them that one day I realized that the time I spent watching soap operas was time I wasted dedicating to God and they look at me with pity and even They have told me: What a sacrifice!

It's not a sacrifice, it's just that I changed my life, it's another style, my priorities are different. I decided to renounce a whole series of things that made my relationship with God difficult or impoverished, but that does not give me the right to impose that others live a relationship with God equal to mine.

I often hear many people giving reasons for not meeting with God's people and among themselves, one of the most wielding is the series of prohibitions they have to face when they go to a congregation. If we will be stumbling blocks for these little ones!

And I wonder, is there a pre-established pattern to have a relationship with our Father? We do not all have to be the same, my husband and I are two very different people and yet we both serve God with all our soul, but God's dealings with him are different from what he has with me and He does not want me to give up to the same things as my husband, because there are characteristics of us that He uses for His glory, although this is unusual in the face of human bosses.

In Proverbs 20.27 God tells us: "The lamp of the Lord is the spirit of man, which searches the depths of the heart." When we decide to follow Christ and renounce the worldly noise, we do so with joy, knowing that the business is good, we renounce the trinket to receive a treasure in return. It is not sacrifice. Sacrifice is what Christ made to give us the opportunity to be transformed with joy of heart, because in the long run we are convinced that the things that previously filled our lives are beginning to be left over, since they are displaced by other indestructible ones. Christ said in Luke 12:34: "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also"

If you ever have to change your lifestyle and you see it as a sacrifice, don't do it, because you really don't do it with enough love, with that love with which Pablo was able to say: “But how many things were gain for me? I have estimated it as loss for Christ's sake. And certainly, I still count all things as loss due to the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whose sake I have lost everything, and count it as garbage, to gain Christ (Philippians 3: 7-8)

The value of renunciation